I fucked up. I was wrong. I was suppose to come up with six questions for my teacher about Billy Colins' poem "Litany" and failed to do so. Now she asked me to answer one of those questions but I still don't have even a single question for this man. I agree with him completely that love is a made up emotion, it only weakens those who possess it. Some people would call me a pessimist but I would disagree. I don't go out of my way to put a negative spin on things it just happens sometimes. I try to see things for what they truely are and I try not to get blinded by misguided intentions of others. I take everything into account and emerge with the best possible answer I can. As a whole the human race is a very greedy and once we get a taste we always want more. So if we can obtain love then we will always want more than we have, and the only plausible way to obtain that is to get love from a vast array of people. So the fact that I know i will never be content with any amount of love makes me think "why even pursue love?" The fact i believe love is made up helps me out a great deal. I don't think about it anymore than i would think of a unicorn or a fairy. Why do we have to be in love, isn't it enough that we are happy. Why do we always have to categorize and place titles on everything? Why can't we just be happy for once not knowing the answer to some questions. Some doors are better left unopened, we are just too greedy to realize that.
We've all been told that knowledge is power, but I'm starting to disagree. Knowledge corrupts in ways we couldn't even begin to imagine. Look at Albet Einstein for example, he never even dreamed that his research would be used to destroy so many lives. Knowledge isn't power but ignorance is bliss.
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Could writing destroy a life? Remember that movie? With like Johnny Depp or the one that looks like him where he is writing a novel and he goes crazy in his cabin and it turns out he is like schizo and freaks out... sorry that was slightly off track. but you say that knowledge destroys lives, and i want that to relate to writing. There are some minor grammar things that don't flow in this entry. I like the relation from knowledge to love and happiness, like when you ask, "Why can't we just be happy for once not knowing the answer to some questions? but its a question! so ask it, maybe answer it, so we can contomplate it.
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